The Colorado Springs-based organization has been faring poorly over the past several years. Today the Colorado Springs Gazette reports that Focus On the Family is likely to incur yet another round of downsizing in order to fit its operations within declining revenues. Rumors have it that another 100 people may lose their jobs.

Focus currently employs about 850 people, which is significantly down from its peak of about 1,500 in 2000.

The positive side of this includes the possibility that these folks can go out and earn a honest living by not demeaning fellow citizens (and our families)…no wonder Dr. Dobson fled already, the challenge was farrrr too great to regroup the group into becoming responsible and self-accountable members of the community (any).

So, FOTF employees are losing their jobs after their leaders spent truckloads of money to persecute gays.

If the remaining people at FOTF were half rational, they might want to think, “Golly gee, maybe God hates the persecution of gays. Or if they were fully rational, they might want to think, “we are gullible people employed by demagogic liars on fire for God power and money.”

Ummm, really, it takes 850 people to tell gays that they are bad and evil and to come up with wacky ideas like gays shouldn’t adopt, or gays shouldn’t get hospital visitation rights? You know they should get listed on the stock market, so I can buy all their shares and fire every single one of them!

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